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10 Worst Places to Live (Wallet Pop)—One website takes a look at “unemployment rates, health data, the number of foreclosures, crime statistics, climate and other measures of misery” and comes up with...
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Deadly Medicine (Vanity Fair)—A worrisome investigation of whether the increasingly popular trend of outsourcing medical trials to countries with lax regulation could be putting our health in danger....
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A Wrong Turn In Microcredit (Yunus Center)-- Nobel prize winner and managing director of Grameen Bank Mohammad Yunus on the dangers of loan sharking through commercialization of microcredit and the...
View ArticleWhat we’re reading: Worm mind control, Camden struggles and reforms, prepping...
Lasers Control Nematode Worms Like Robots (Wired Science)—Scientists have figured out how to control nematodes’ cells using tiny lasers, making them stop, turn, and lay eggs on command. Named after...
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An urban planning whodunit: the Chicago neighborhood that vanished into thin air (WBEZ)—Lee Bey cracks the mystery of a neighborhood that appeared—and then disappeared—within three decades.—Sarah Duda,...
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The printed world (The Economist)—A “new industrial revolution” of faster, cheaper, and more precise 3D printers could make it easier for many more people to make things.—Tom Feltner, Vice President
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Dying Industries– An analysis examining ten U.S. industries that are in states of significant decline. I’m starting to worry that my dream of opening Geoff’s Video and Tuxedo Rental Warehouse might be...
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Five Dialogues (Plato)— What is and what isn’t? How do we define our beliefs? What is conviction? In Plato’s Five Dialogues, one of Western Philosophies forefathers takes you on a journey forcing you...
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The Help (Kathryn Stockett)—I'm reading this before I see the movie, about black maids raising privileged white babies in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, and a young white woman who writes about their...
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